Bad example .... they invested billions of dollars worth of tech to get this employee back on the job
In real life ... they make no investment in their employees, yet they expect them to work at full efficiency even if they are missing a limb or an organ
I think OCP was trying to win private policing contracts in other cities. If they could offer robocops, a LEO who produced measurable better results over traditional police departments they could get more contracts.
So it wasn't really an investment in a worker it was a tech demonstration.
Wasn’t the point that the actual robots produced by the corp that made him were unwanted and mistrusted by the public, so they took an almost dead cop and rebuilt him as a human looking robot to popularize the tech?
They didn’t invest in him they just bought a corpse for marketing purposes and made it a robot with a face.
We had a president whose administration acted like the the most unbelievable supervillain criminal gangs comic books could come up with. So it's not surprise a good movie couldn't compete with reality.
The whole film was dripping-wet with satire, pointing out flaws in the society of the US and Detroit in particular (at the time). OP's remark is just one of many such beats in the film. We're supposed to be both entertained but also moved to do something about how f--ed the situation outside the theatre has become.
I’m honestly surprised to find out there are people who didn’t get it.
I used to feel that way. But then I remembered that the same director that brought us this gem, also directed Starship Troopers. At this point, I'm convinced the man has a way of building satire pieces that are a little too good.
The 2014 remake made sense to me... it was a remake by Omnicorp. They evil corporations won, then they remade Robocop as a 'no blood' 12a. It was a super-dark play on the fact that they couldn't make the original anymore. [edit: added date & link to imdb]
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 59 pts · 2y
Bad example .... they invested billions of dollars worth of tech to get this employee back on the job
In real life ... they make no investment in their employees, yet they expect them to work at full efficiency even if they are missing a limb or an organ
errer@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
If it wasn’t for the smell, they’d weekend at bernies your corpse in the Walmart if would make them a buck.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
I'm picturing a Walmart greeter corpse on strings like a marionette...
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
I think OCP was trying to win private policing contracts in other cities. If they could offer robocops, a LEO who produced measurable better results over traditional police departments they could get more contracts.
So it wasn't really an investment in a worker it was a tech demonstration.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 2y
Wasn’t the point that the actual robots produced by the corp that made him were unwanted and mistrusted by the public, so they took an almost dead cop and rebuilt him as a human looking robot to popularize the tech?
They didn’t invest in him they just bought a corpse for marketing purposes and made it a robot with a face.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
We had a president whose administration acted like the the most unbelievable supervillain criminal gangs comic books could come up with. So it's not surprise a good movie couldn't compete with reality.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
All of that investment was offset by government grants and tax write offs.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
No, no, no. Remember, ihe wasn't some super soldier saving a nation, just a police officer. Here's an example of Robocop funding...
https://lemmy.world/post/11955175
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y
I thought that was a major point of the movie.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y
I agree.
The whole film was dripping-wet with satire, pointing out flaws in the society of the US and Detroit in particular (at the time). OP's remark is just one of many such beats in the film. We're supposed to be both entertained but also moved to do something about how f--ed the situation outside the theatre has become.
Decades later, after hearing this premise break the sound-barrier as it flew over everyone's head multiple times, the good people of Detroit tried to raise a statue of RoboCop in his honor.
Isoprenoid@programming.dev · 10 pts · 2y
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_statue
It's happening!
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I used to feel that way. But then I remembered that the same director that brought us this gem, also directed Starship Troopers. At this point, I'm convinced the man has a way of building satire pieces that are a little too good.
fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
The 2014 remake made sense to me... it was a remake by Omnicorp. They evil corporations won, then they remade Robocop as a 'no blood' 12a. It was a super-dark play on the fact that they couldn't make the original anymore. [edit: added date & link to imdb]
einat2346@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 2y
Detroit Jesus died for your sins, was reborn.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
Not only that but he's also property now.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 2y
Why yes, yes it has been several weeks since I last watched Robocop. Why, do you wanna watch it with me right now?
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2y
Bertolt Brecht has a poem about a dead soldier who is sent to the front again
samus12345@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Cut off an extra arm just for consistency
buzz86us@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Wow its Robert Cop!!
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
On the bright side didn't he get to shoot one of his supervisors in one of them?
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y
tchnically not. the guy had just been fired seconds before
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The truly unbelievable part of Robocop is that he was given a directive to protect the innocent.
tygerprints@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
Death is no excuse for missing work, unless you have a written note from your doctor. Be here all the earlier the next day though.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
If I have to go to work anyway sign me up. It sounds like the ideal employee/employer relationship
xantoxis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
In that he gets fired and--as a direct result--shoots the guy who made him, sending him through a window? yeah maybe.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
No as in I get out of having to work with the bonus of dying and they get a free drone
xantoxis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Good in theory but Murphy was very much aware of what had happened to him
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
This is what will happen to us if they ever figure out how to upload consciousness.
fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
yep: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
bruhduh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
bruhduh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
bruhduh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y